Template:On this day/December 23

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

December 23:

• 1757 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain issues royal orders naming settlement near San Miguel mission (near today's Seville Square) "Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola."
• 1835 – Salvador Pons, Pensacola's first mayor of color, was born.
• 1893 – J. Harvey Bayliss, another mayor of Pensacola, was born.